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Freemans Bakery Victoria Road Aston

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adw_wright

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Hello,

Please can anyone help with any information on a Bakery called Freemans on Vicarage Road, Aston - my great grand parents ran it and I would love any information.

Cheers
 
Are you sure it wasn't victoria Road Aston. there was a John Barsby Freeman wiht a bakery there
 
Hi mike
yes you are quite right thats excactly where i can only recall a bakery and there front building was there shop where they made cakes and there specialality was large double headed bloomers and bread loves and rolls of every discription
the actual bakery was there rear end of there property which was in vicarage rd and the corner of victoria rd as you have said
the smell was lovely every day there shop front was always packed for there single bloomers and the double top blomers i was there every day for mother
best wishes astonian
 
Thanks Astonian for sorting that out. It makes perfect sense.
The bakery was under the Freeman name (John Barsby Freeman) from between 1900 and 1903 to 1949 at 391 Victoria Road, ands continued as a baker under another name till the late 1950s, when it became a confectioners. . The bakery can be seen in red on the 1889 map below, when it was still a bakers, though under Joseph Walker at the time.

mapc1889391victoriaroad.jpg
 
My great gran parents names were Harry and Ada Brookes, they must have ran it when it became a confectioners.

How could I get hold of any pictures?
 
It is still listed as a bakery under Henry Brookes in 1950-56, but by 1962 is described as a confectioners and he continues there under that title till 1969.
 
Hi Thank you for this information, I am trying to track down the date of birth of my great grand father (Henry I was led to believe it was Harry?, is his wife listed?). Where did you find this information?

Do you have any pictures that I could see?
 
All the information was from Birmingham directories. they often abbreviated common christian names and the entries say Hy, which could be Harry or Henry. beffore and immediately after WW2 people named Henry were often called Harry , whatever it said on the birth certificate, especially if father and son were both named the same, and it was used to differentiate them. That said, the electoral roll for 391 gives Harry Brookes and Ada M. Brookes in 1950 and 1955. the online rolls do not yet go past 1955
 
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